Give yourself about 15 minutes to respond to each of these questions in writing on your blog. Try to
answer with detail and specificity, pointing to particular moments in text and
bringing some of that text into your writing to support and develop your ideas.
- Part 1,
Chapter 7 includes a second meeting between Delaney and Cándido, this time
with Jack and Jack Jr. there as well. How are Delaney’s thoughts,
feelings, and actions similar to the first meeting? How are they different? What seems most
important about this second interaction between the two characters?
- Part 1, Chapter 8 is a tough chapter; just as Cándido is beginning to feel human again, América suffers a tremendous amount of trauma and pain. Look carefully at the chapter, particularly at what is happening to her. What does she do for the first time in her life? What does she notice when she sees herself in the mirror, and when she looks at her hands? What does she dream about? Use the text to help you here.
- Considering The Tortilla Curtain’s Part 1 as a whole, why might Boyle have begun with Delaney and Cándido's original collision and end with América's rape? How do these events frame the first 8 chapters? Make an argument for an interpretation here.
After writing, go visit the blog of the person just above you on the class blog list. Comment on their post, either by:
- Affirm and continue developing – validate the speaker’s position and ideas, and point to another moment in the text to explain.
- Doubt and support – provide another way of looking at the question, character(s) or idea(s) and support that thinking with the text.
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